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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

XGL on this laptop ... what do you think?

Here's my laptop ...

http://www.uniwill.com/products/other/n341c2/N341C2.htm

I'm thinking about XGL, it looks interesting, but the S3 ProSavage graphics card is questionable ... thought I'd ask for your opinions   Thanks a bunch!

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: XGL on this laptop ... what do you think?

I was under the impression that it only worked with selected cards at this time: some from Nvidia and ATI, and some Intel cards (I know it works on my 915GM).

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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Re: XGL on this laptop ... what do you think?

ah, makes sense for how premature it is right now.  Better off not even trying ... my laptop is running excellent on 2D X right now anyway

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

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Re: XGL on this laptop ... what do you think?

Yeah, probably. I gave it a try, but it wasn't really worth it. It was really cool to actually use it rather than just watch screencaps. If I hadn't been the victim of some sort of window dragging bug I might have kept it around so I'd have something with a little more eye candy than Ratpoison to show off.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: XGL on this laptop ... what do you think?

I would try it with Xorg 7.1 (PKGBUILDs available [/url=http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=22990]here[/url]), which has AIGLX - that works fine with Unichrome (I know because I've tried it on said hardware), and there's no reason it wouldn't work with Savage. I would expect mediocre performance on eyecandy stuff though - I once had Savage and found it to be slow as hell with anything 3D, and I don't think that was a driver problem.

(On the other hand... can that laptop run BZFlag with linear-mipmap-linear texturing and blending enabled, at a decent framerate? If it can do that under Xorg 7.x, then I'm wrong about Savage performance not being a driver problem.)